Drug testing welfare recipients: Discuss

[Mystical]

Here's my solution.
Provide non-repurcussions to people who seek treatment for addictions, and support mental health services which are the MAIN reason why anyone has that addiction in the first place: they're just self medicating. We're a nation of self medicators, because there's no alternative.
Temporarily pay towards peoples' rent directly, pay utilities directly, pay for food stamps which can only be used on food, gas stipends too.

More importantly: figure out why the fuck they don't have a job. Most of these programs require people apply for jobs weekly and to go to an 8hr course that gets their resume up to date. That's fair. However, Long term recipients should require more and more rigorous intervention, and at some point be referred to the street with nothing (if they so choose) or medical care and public support centers like community living and mental health services or disability for those who can't support themselves for mental or physical reasons, at which point substance abuse will be a mandatory treatment. Make homelessness illegal. Provide systems that weed through the homeless and put them in the proper programs such as mental illness or substance abuse programs, or working support systems. Bolster the city transportation systems to actually make work accessible for people without cars. All of these policies would create jobs btw.

Bolster the foster care oversight and application system, WATCH OUT for helpless kids (having checks on their well being through school or homeschooling mandatory attendance meetings), provide after school programs for free for low income families and since those programs usually run till 6pm: feed those kids dinner. This way before school, during school, and after school meals can be ensured and the children will not be paying for the adults' mistakes. Provide Clothes for those kids (fucking make prison inmates do shit like make clothes).
EDUCATE those kids effectively. Invest in our future generation that way because as things are we're just continuing a generational cycle that creates unhealthy, unproductive citizens. Every child --no exception--should have insurance. Period.

Speaking of insurance, Medicare and Medicaid cost so much because no one's overseeing the billing doctors offices are ensuing. No one's calling them on their bullshit treatment plans, and no one's saying "hey now lets actually cure people not bustle them around the system till they're bankrupt!". Who pays for those bankruptcies? Tax payers. Who then pays for support services because people lose everything? Tax payers. Who pays for ER visits by uninsured, bankrupt citizens? Yep, you guessed it.

While we're at it, why are prisons full to the brink with mentally ill or why are they allowed to procreate mental illness and create psychopathy? They don't reform shit. They cost plenty though, oh yeah they do. Homeless people even go out of their way to get into prison just to be taken care of. Then they become institutionalized and people re-offend just to stay in those walls. Must be the life, Breakfast, then Opera, then outdoor fun, then lunch, then free medical care, then dinner, then ass raping, then sleep. All while high as fuck on contraband. Yep, totally.
I say make them work for their board. But that's me.

In conclusion and Most importantly: Do shit that actually fucking matters, rather than standing there with your foot down firm wearing a sideways grin, being a sadistic asshole.